Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:
‘Hadestown’ Apologizes After Actor Calls Out Hearing Impaired Woman
Deadline: The producers of Broadway’s Hadestown and Jujamcyn Theaters have apologized to an audience member with hearing loss whose use of a captioning device, provided by the theater, drew repeated onstage reprimands from one of the musical’s stars who mistakenly assumed the device was recording the performance.What Makes Script Supervisors the Unsung Heroes of Film & TV?
nofilmschool.com: Savvy directors and smart producers get it—so why do so many productions think they can save money by not hiring a script supervisor? Or when they do, why are we one of the last department heads hired?How Many Hats Can You Wear Successfully?
PLSN: As touring ramps up and reliable labor dwindles, many of us will be asked to go above and beyond. As I mentioned in the August article (“Unpaid Labor,” PLSN, Aug. 2022, page 44), going above and beyond is noble, but allowing ourselves to be taken advantage of is harmful to us and our entire industry. This article is an extension of the unpaid labor that I had mentioned in August. Unpaid labor is almost never acceptable, but there is a gray area that deserves a deeper dive.Wrongful Death Lawsuits In Tinseltown: Halyna Hutchins Wasn’t The First...And Won’t Be The Last
www.forbes.com: News of Rust Movie Productions LLC’s and Alec Baldwin’s settlement with the late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ estate broke last week, almost eight months after Attorney Brian Panish filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Defendants. In October 2021, Hutchins was shot and killed by a prop gun on the set of Rust, which will resume production at the start of 2023 with Hutchins’ widow, Matthew, now an Executive Producer.‘Maybe you set the theatre on fire?’: directors on staging the unstageable
Theatre | The Guardian: Michael Longhurst isn’t short on experience when tackling wildly imaginative stage directions – after all, he staged a play perched predominantly atop a mountain (Force Majeure). But perhaps the most challenging, he says, was this humdinger at the beginning of Nick Payne’s Constellations: “An indented rule indicates a change in universe.”
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